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P. R. WOOLF COLLAPSIBLE BUCKET Aug. 7, E928.

Filed April 5, 1926 WW.W@@/f raie-aaa nag. 7i, ieee.

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CGLIJAPSIBLE BUCKET.

.Appueauonneieaapril a, leas. serial no. 499,645.

.il This4 invention relates to collapsible or foldable buckets andthegeneral .ob-ject of my' invention is to provide a bucket of paraftinedor waxed paper or other Alight and readily.foldablefabric, which isdesigned to be used where liquids are transported for f a shortdistancel and which is capable of use to another.

for transporting gasoline and oils from a filling station to a strandedcaror for carryingzliquidsor other materals from one place A furtherobject is toprovide a bucket which, as before remarked, is made ofparaffined paper and which may be folded into very compact form so thata number of these buckets can be readily shipped by parcel post at verysmall cost 4and so that a number of buckets may be readily carried in acar when touring.

Another object is to provide a bucketof this character which is conicalor has the form of a cornucopia. and which, being made of paper,.mayVhave its pointed end torn olf so that the bucket may be used as a funnelon occasion.

A still further Vobject is to provide a bail for the bucket of a verf,7light characterVV which may be utilized with a number of differentbuckets if d-esired, and so form the bucket that thev bail may` engageat a plurality of points with reenforced portions on theV bucket. i Y

' Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.le

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein Figurel is a perspective view of a bucketl constructed in accordance with myinvention, the lower portion of thebucket being l folded; Y

Fig. .2 is a vertical sectional view of the upper portion of thebucketshowing the top folded in;

Fig. 8 is an elevation of the bucket;

Fig. l is a section on the line 1- 4 of Figure 3 5 is a fragmentarysection on the line 5-5 of Figure 3';

Fig. 6 is a view of the bucket Vinit-s fully folded condition.

p VReferring to these drawings it will be seen that the body 10 of thebucket is conical in form, or as before remarked, has the form of aCornucopia, and this `body is formed of relatively heavy paper which hasbeen waxed or paraflined so that it will carry liquids. This body maybemade lin .any suitablevnianner andinia/y be made of any suitable size, aconvenient size being about 2. long and 1 in diameter.

The vupper margin of the bucket isforined at a plurality of pointswithreenforcedportions through which the ends of a bail mayV pass. Asillustrated, each reenforcedtportion is formed by cutting out asemi-circular ear 11 from the body of thebucket and turning this earover upon the outside face of the bucket and pasting it or gluing it inplace. A. perforation 12 is then formed through the body of the bucketand through the reenforced portion constituted by this ear.

The bail is preferably formed of relatively heavy and stili2 wire andbent to form an approximately U-shaped handle 13, the wire beinglaterally extended at one end, as at le, and then returned upon itselfand again laterally extended beyond the bail, as atl. The ends of theportions lll and 15 are angularly bent as at 16, so as to form hooksadapted to extend through the perforations 12. Both ends of the bail areformed in the same manner. Thus the bail consists of a handle portionand two laterally and downwardly directed arms, the eX- tremities'of thearms being hooked.

This bucket may be folded, as illustrated in Figure 6 so that the lowerportion of the conical bucket will be parallel along one side edge ofthe upper portion of the bucket, the paper of the bucket being, ofcourse, flattened down and the bail being bent so as n to lie in aparallel plane. Thus, a number of these buckets folded as described maybe packed together for transportation and will take up very little room.

The opposed walls of the paper cone at the extreme tip of the cone maybe pasted together and a. holel? made through these two layers orthicknesses and when the bucket is folded, one of the hooks of the bailmay pass through these perforations so that the bail acts to hold thebucket in its folded position.

The use of this bucket will be obvious and it will be seen that inasmuchas the reenforced portions 11 are formed below the upper margin of thepaper constituting the bucket, this upper margin may be turned inward ordown inside of the bucket to constitute a lid which will at leastprevent the splashing out of the contents of the bucket. If it bedesired to use the bucket for a funnel the tip end of the bucket is tornaway on the dotted line 18 and obviously( this tear may be made nearerto or further from the hole 17 so as to make a relatively small or arelatively large discharge opening for the funnel .so formed.

The top of the bucket is formed With longitudinally extending slots orcuts'19 to permit the folding in of the top of the bucket to form thelid as shown in Figure' 2, and also the slots are cut to give room forthe bail and to lap when turned inside. Of

" course, the bucket shown in Figure 1 need not have its tapered endturned up as illusi tra-ted, but this makes the bucket shorter,stronger, and easier to handle.

I claim:- A collapsible bucket of the character described having aconical body formed of Water-proof paper the body beindadapted to befolded upoIi itselfandf{latin-ined` for transportation, the body jatfourpointsbeing cut away in a semi-circle to form ears Whichrare bentvdownward upon the body, a Y

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